Engines of Our Ingenuity
Summary: The story of technological progress is one of drama and intrigue, sudden insight and plain hard work. Let’s explore technology’s spectacular failures and many magnificent success stories. This content is in service of Houston Public Media’s education mission and is sponsored by the University of Houston. It is not a product of our news team.
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Podcasts:
Episode: 3226 A Novel Use of a Flight Training Centrifuge for Medical Intervention. Today, Spin Doctors.
Episode: 1827 Samuel Florman, Smith College, and engineering -- in the late 1970s. Today, Samuel Florman at Smith College.
Episode: 1826 Of steel and art: Eccentric circular turning. Today, eccentric circular turning.
Episode: 1825 In which Grandpa learns not to play chicken with his Model T. Today, grandpa's first automobile.
Episode: 3025 Thoreau's Walden. Today, a book report.
Episode: 2985 Relative Accuracy. Today, we’ll question the virtue of accuracy.
Episode: 3225 Abraham Lincoln invents a boat which can free itself from sandbars. Today, Abe Lincoln, inventor.
Episode: 1823 Inventing zero. Today, we seek nothing.
Episode: 1824 Cognac grapes growing from Texas rootstocks. Today, we grow grapes.
Episode: 1822 Michael W. O'Neill, and the world below the surface. Today, we go below the surface.
Episode: 3024 Thomas Young, Polymath. Today, a most interesting man.
Episode: 2002 The almost-first patent: from stained glass to genetically modified mice. Today, guest historian Cathy Patterson with a story about patents.
Episode: 3021 Einstein's Authenticity. Today, was Einstein’s work his own?
Episode: 1821 Trying to see 1892, or ancient Rome, in our mind's eye. Today, we visit 1892.
Episode: 1819 In which four women gravitate skyward on Hempstead Plains, L.I. Today, four women gravitate skyward.
